Tom Moran’s column, “America’s most overrated governor” (Perspective, Sept. 15), says it all about politics in New Jersey and America.

Gov. Chris Christie’s major accomplishment, thanks in part to a hurricane and now a fire, is that he has spent more time on TV than any other governor in history. That appears to be the principal reason for his popularity.

The Democrats made a major mistake in their nomination for governor. They should have nominated someone named Kardashian or Gaga.

Marvin Schwalb, Livingston

Sign of frustration

Four years of frustration for Tom Moran and The Star-Ledger came oozing out of Sunday’s newspaper with the claim that Gov. Chris Christie is “overrated.” Not too surprisingly, this piece of journalistic desperation comes just weeks before the governor’s all-but-inevitable re-election.

During Christie’s first term, The Star-Ledger has gone out of its way both on the opinion pages and those ostensibly reserved for unbiased news to sway public opinion to the negative, only to be thwarted by a masterful ability of New Jersey’s governor to reach over and around the media to connect with citizens of this state and beyond.

Will we see a similar hit piece on the overrated Democratic mayor of Newark just before the U.S. Senate special election on Oct. 16?

Martin Marks, Cranford

Christie’s dazzling footwork

Now you’ve done it. No telling how the wrath of Gov. Chris Christie will befall The Star-Ledger. What was not said is the fact that besides being the most overrated governor, he is a blowhard and a bully.

Considering that 60 percent of the New Jersey electorate supports Christie, he not only has them baffled by his hot air, he has dazzled them with his footwork.

John F. Hessel, Monroe

Moran’s missed point

Tom Moran’s assessment of the Christie administration misses the main issue facing New Jersey. Nothing will markedly improve until the school funding formula is drastically changed.

Real estate taxes are unfairly high in most of the state because the former Abbott districts get the bulk of state education funding. The income tax, originally planned for property tax relief, was hijacked to fund the Abbott districts.

As Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine often writes, Morris County, with more population, gets a tiny fraction of the $700 million-plus Newark gets. That’s the elephant-in-the-room issue. And that’s why suburbanites support Christie.

Frank Alfano, Morristown

Not N.J.’s savior

I would like to thank Tom Moran for telling it like it is. Gov. Chris Christie has not been New Jersey’s savior, as many believe.

Sharon Maltzman, Monroe

Our absent senators

Sens. Diane Feinstein and Harry Reid were reportedly livid in June when more than half of the U.S. Senate failed to show up for a classified briefing with James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, and Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA.

The names of the non-attending senators should be published so voters can use this to determine who is representing them efficiently and intelligently. It is incomprehensible that senators who didn’t attend knew more than the intelligence experts. Their cavalier attendance is an insult to their electorate.

Ken Stufko, Allentown

Fire favoritism

Where was Gov. Chris Christie when the six-alarm Dietz and Watson warehouse fire occurred in Delanco two weeks ago? I don’t recall him rushing to the scene, bloviating about cleanup and rebuilding.

The wreckage of the building remains the way it was two weeks ago, with more than 100 people out of work and the burned plant becoming an environmental hazard. But to the governor, rebuilding a section of a boardwalk in the off-season is top priority.

Christie doesn’t care about the environment or people who have lost their jobs in Delanco, only about his base in red-leaning Ocean County.

Jeffrey R. Pickens, Turnersville

Unhelped victims

Please don’t think my heart isn’t broken for those who lost everything in the Seaside boardwalk fire. That tragedy is beyond comprehension. But where is the state getting the money to give $50,000 grants and loans to those business owners? Are they first-business owners or second-business owners?

How quickly and rightly our state government came to their aid. We secondary Shore home­own­ers, with flood insurance, still can’t rebuild without great financial burden.

Michele Fleitell, Nutley

Holding Wall Street accountable

I was pleased to read The Star-Ledger’s editorial (“Crime, but no punishment,” Sept. 13) questioning why not one executive of the large financial houses involved in the collapse of the U.S. economy has been investigated or charged with misconduct. It’s a question I have been asking for several years.

After the fall of 2008, many howled for someone to be held accountable for ruining so many lives. As time went on, those cries disappeared. The fact that questionable, if not criminal, practices took place and have not been called out is a severe disservice to the American public.

My business, of which 95 percent of its clients are small business, still sees most of them struggling to stay afloat five years later. To point out the need for more investigation is right on target.

Christopher Crane, Metuchen

War and peace, changing roles

In one of history’s bitter ironies, the two principal actors on the Syrian stage are Russian President Vladimir Putin, the KGB villain, playing the role of peacemaker, and President Obama, the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner, starring as the war-peddler.